Word: advent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chuck Berry, continue on through Hendrix, Page and Eric Clapton, and include players of more recent vintage, like Eddie Van Halen and Living Colour's Vernon Reid--musicians celebrated for their sheer instrumental talent, their jazzman-like flair for expansive, showy (and sometimes self-indulgent) solos. But with the advent of alternative rock and grunge in the late '80s and early '90s, guitar heroism became uncool. Peter Buck of the influential rock band R.E.M. shies away from the exhibitionism of flashy solos; other alternative rockers, including the late singer-guitarist Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, have as well...
...most profound and innovative applications for the technology in the curriculum is in the advent of multimedia cases...
...victory of Robert M. Hyman '98 and Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 in the first-ever popular elections for Undergraduate Council officers was supposed to signal the advent of a "New Undergraduate Council...
Whatever the reason, the advent of this new element has had a profound effect on the baseball world. Players like ex-Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly have prolonged their careers and gained the respect of millions via their reputation as "solid clubhouse presences," whose diminishing productivity is offset by leadership effects...
...came about in the late 1980s, when researchers discovered that a particular antidepressant, clomipramine hydrochloride (brand name: Anafranil), relieved obsessions and compulsions as no others did. The presumed secret of its success was its ability to inhibit the reabsorption of serotonin in the brain. A few years later, the advent of the ssri family made it even more obvious that obsessive-compulsive disorder was at least in part a serotonin problem. Some 75% to 80% of ocd patients today get substantial relief--sometimes complete remission--from one or another member of the SSRIS...